Student Workers of the Month - September/October 2009

The following three people are the student workers of the month for September/October 2009. They are selected by the library staff based on criteria such as punctuality, attitude, and customer service to name just a few. Read more about them below.

Tiffany Blalock
Tiffany Blalock is the daughter of Tommy and Pat Blalock. Tiffany was born in Conroe, Texas but grew up in Livingston, Texas. Tiffany has six siblings and 15 nieces and nephews. Tiffany is an Elementary Education major with a minor in mathematics. Tiffany is apart of the Student Activities Board and participates in intermurals. Tiffany love ETBU and thanks God so much for bringing her here. In her free time she likes to watch movies, hang out with her friends and take naps.

Thank you so much for this award!!!
Love,
Tiffany :)

John Christopher Williams III
My name is John Christopher Williams III; I was born in Plain Dealing, La. I am the son of John & Martha Williams. I come from a family of 6 children. At age 10, I realized that it takes hard work and faith to be successful. When I was 12 years old, I started my own lawn service business. This business was quiet profitable. I conducted this business every summer until I graduated. I would like to think that I inherited my ambition from my mother and my hard working skills from my father. In 2005, I attended Bossier Parish Community College to study theatre, where I received my Associates in Theatre and a certificate in technical theatre. Bossier Parish Community College is where I begin to make the transition from a boy to a man. I study hard at BPCC and enhanced my knowledge base without measurements. I graduated from BPCC in 2008. From that point, I decided to attend East Texas Baptist University and continue to study theatre. East Texas Baptist University was very gracious and loving to me. I was very active at ETBU I was involved in the following: Theatre, Cultural Outreach Ministries, SGA, BSM, band, PAS, KKY, and a radio DJ. I believe that if someone wants to be successful, one must be involved and be engaged to their involvements. Saving the best for last Jesus has paved the way for my accomplishments. There is NO substitute for hard-work. May God Bless you.

Karyn Solly
I was born in Kenner,La. My family later moved to Lufkin, TX where I grew up. I am sociology major with a minor in religion. I am Delta Pi Theta's service officer and love being part of the sisterhood. My parents are Keith and Betty Solly and I have two older brothers Paul and Phillip. My desire is to own my own motorcycle and be in races. I collect rubber ducks from all over the world. I also LOVE Nascar. I attend First Baptist Church of Gilmer when I am at school and at home I attend O'Quinn Baptist church. I accepted Christ to be my savior at the age of 8 and never been the same. Each day God renews my strength and my relationship with him so that I can be the best servant for him as possible. Each day I try to live out my life for God's glory and sometimes it is a struggle but again, God renews my strength.

Thank you
Karynbeth Solly

Library Closing Early Friday, October 2, 2009

The library will close early on Friday, October 2, 2009 because of the Inauguration activities. Please note the library will open at its regular time of 7:30 AM but will close at 1:00 PM that afternoon. The library will reopen at it's usual time of 10:00 AM on Saturday, October 3, 2009.

The staff of the library wants to congratulate Dr. Dub Oliver as he is invested as the newest President of East Texas Baptist University.

NetLibrary eBook of the Month for October 2009

Burn this Book is October eBook of the Month

Literary heavyweights Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk explore the power of literature in this provocative and timely collection of essays

Marshall, Texas, September 28, 2009—In recognition of Banned Books Week, Jarrett Library is pleased to announce that Burn This Book will be available as the October eBook of the Month.
Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book explores the meaning of censorship, and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves. Contributors including Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, David Grossman, Nadine Gordimer and other literary heavyweights, discuss the importance of writing from various views, both political and social. They illustrate the need for freedom of speech and human rights, and they emphasize the target writers become in a tyranny.

In Freedom to Write Orhan Pamuk elegantly describes escorting Arthur Miller and Harold Pinter around Turkey and how the experience of meeting with persecuted writers changed his life. In The Value of the Word Salman Rushdie shares a story from Bulgakov’s novel The Master and the Margarita in which the Devil talks to a frustrated writer called “The Master.” The writer is so upset with his own work he decides to burn it: “How could you do that?” the Devil asks... “Manuscripts do not burn.” Indeed, manuscripts do not burn, Rushdie argues, but writers do.

Both provocative and timely, Burn This Book includes a sterling list of award-winning writers and is sure to ignite spirited dialogue on the issues of censorship and freedom of speech.

Provided through the generous support of HarperCollins Publishers, Burn this Book will be available to Jarrett Library users October 1-31. For more information about NetLibrary or other services available through Jarrett Library, please contact your librarian or visit the Jarrett Library Home page at http://www.etbu.edu/Library/.

About PEN American Center

PEN American Center is the U.S. branch of the world’s oldest international literary and human rights organization. International PEN was founded in 1921 in direct response to the ethnic and national divisions that contributed to the First World War. PEN American Center was founded in 1922 and is the largest of the 144 PEN centers in 101 countries that together compose International PEN. PEN’s programs reach out to the world and into diverse communities within the United States. They promote writing and literature at every level and are founded on the belief that free expression is an essential component of every healthy society.

About Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week (BBW): Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds readers not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. BBW celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them.

About HarperCollins Publishers
Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins Publishers is a broad-based publisher with strengths in literary and commercial fiction, business books, children's books, cookbooks, and mystery, romance, reference, religious, and spiritual books. Consistently at the forefront of innovation and technological advancement, HarperCollins is the first publisher to digitize its content and create a global digital warehouse to protect the rights of its authors, meet consumer demand and generate additional business opportunities. For more information, visit: http://www.harpercollins.com/.

About NetLibrary

OCLC NetLibrary provides content and technical delivery solutions to institutional libraries, corporations and government agencies that facilitate the purchase, management and distribution of research, reference, digital learning and general interest content via Web-based technologies. NetLibrary’s eContent solution is the most broadly adopted in the market, making more than 200,000 eBooks, 6,000 eJournals, 10,000 eAudiobooks, and 83 databases available through more than 16,000 libraries worldwide. For more information, visit www.oclc.org/netlibrary/.

Credo Reference Featured Title of the Month for September 2009

Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence from M.E. Sharpe

From references to secret agents in The Art of War in 400 B.C.E. to the Bush administration's War on Terrorism, espionage has always been an essential part of state security policies. This illustrated encyclopedia traces the fascinating stories of spies, intelligence, and counterintelligence throughout history.

The Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Counterintelligence provides a unique background perspective for viewing history and current events. In easy-to-understand, non-technical language, it explains how espionage works as a function of national policy; traces the roots of national security; profiles key intelligence leaders, agents, and double-agents; discusses intelligence concepts and techniques; and profiles the security organizations and intelligence history and policies of nations around the world. As a special feature, the set also includes forewords by current U.S. Secretary of Defense and former CIA Director Robert M. Gates and former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin that help clarify the evolution of intelligence and counterintelligence and their crucial roles in world affairs today.Read a few of the interesting entries:

• Timeline of intelligence
• Black Tom Island
• Soviet Union
• Alan Turing
• Operation CHAOS
• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

NetLibrary September E-Book of the Month

Flatlined, an Insider’s Guide to Resuscitating American Medicine, is September eBook of Month

Flatlined lifts the veil of secrecy on twenty-first century health care and delves into the realities of good people caught in a bad medical system. Dr. Guy L. Clifton, a practitioner as well as a policy advocate, reveals first-hand accounts of needless tragedy, such as the young man who died after a car wreck for lack of a bed in a qualified hospital and the surgeon who was dejected by the scarcity of resources needed to enable him to perform heart surgery on an uninsured man.

Arguing that a lack of coordinated care and quality medical practice benchmarks result in high levels of redundancy and ineffectiveness, Clifton proposes that the key to reducing health care costs, improving quality, and financially protecting the uninsured, is to reduce wastefulness, and offers a solution for achieving success.

Flatlined sounds the warning call: By 2018 Medicare and Medicaid will consume about one-third of the federal budget. American businesses now pay three times as much of their payroll for health care as global competitors, a figure that is expected to worsen as health care grows at twice the rate of the U.S. economy. Based on his years of experience in policy and medicine, Clifton offers an attainable solution through the development of an American Medical Quality System.

Provided through the generous support of Rutgers University Press, Flatlined will be available to Jarrett Library users September 1-30. For more information about NetLibrary or other services available through Jarrett Library, please contact your librarian.

About the Author:
Guy L. Clifton, M.D. is a neurosurgeon, clinical investigator, administrator, and health policy advocate. He is the Runnells Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and has been frequently included in Best Doctors of America. A 2006–2007 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow, he is now devoting himself full-time to health policy reform.